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Former Mumbai Indians & RCB player arrested for match fixing in the final of KPL

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Former Mumbai Indians & RCB player arrested for match fixing in the final of KPL

The two big names cm gautam and Abrar Kazi arrested for match fixing in the final of kpl.

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Gautam has played in the IPL for RCB, Mumbai Indians and Delhi and Kazi playing for Ranji Team . Where cm Gautam has played 94 First-Class matches scoring 4716 runs at 41.4 with 10 hundreds and 24 fifties and was an integral part of the Karnataka side that won the domestic treble two years in a row in 2013-15 and 2014-15.

The incident was happened in the final game between belary tuskers and Hubli Tigers. As per the sources, they have received around 20 lakhs for slow batting in the final. Which cost the belary tuskers the game. They lost it by just 8 runs while chasing a target of 153. In the match gautam scored 29 runs for 37 balls.

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CM Gautam

He moved to Goa this season after nine years with his home team and was named their captain for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, which begins on Friday, but his contract has now been terminated with immediate effect. Vipul Phadke, GCA secretary, told that Gautam left the Goa squad abruptly on Tuesday. “He told told the coach (Dodda Ganesh, former Karnataka and India fast bowler), he had to leave urgently.”

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Today’s arrests come a day after Karnataka Polic Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested another player, Nishanth shekawat, for allegedly acting as bridge between bookies and players. As of Thursday, seven people – including four players – have been arrested in relation to fixing in the KPL. More arrests are expected, the Central crime branch said.

Gautam is by far the highest profile name to emerge in the KPL fixing scandal, which broke in September with the arrest of Belagavi Panthers owner Ali Asfak Thara.Gautam was a long-term deputy of Vinay Kumar, and stood in for him in three matches 2013, captaining a team with the likes of Robin Uthappa, KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, and Manish Pandey. Gautam also played for India A and has played for Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mumbai Indians, and Delhi Daredevils in the IPL.

Kazi, a bowling allrounder who also played under Gautam at some point, had a more stop-start career with Karnataka before moving onto Nagaland last year and making three 150+ scores as a middle-order batsman. He transferred to Mizoram at the start of this season.

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